The task ahead is Herculean. We have allies at war and allies facing potential war. We have a national debt of $36 trillion. We have runaway government spending. We have a wide-open border. It's time to end the bickering and do the work you are elected – and paid handsomely – to do. Fix it.

Parrot signatures once adorned the tops of our chairs, while the puppy signatures decorated the legs, but I understand. This is their home, their world, and we are simply the lucky ones who are allowed to share it with them.

Most politicians love to talk. But once they’re elected, they too often forget that the primary job of a senator is actually to listen.

Entrepreneurialism isn’t a choice, it’s a state of mind. It’s a powerful belief in a different way of not just meeting, but leading the needs of customers that’s so deeply ingrained that it’s near impossible to compromise one’s vision.

Honesty is the most valuable coin of the realm. In both giving and receiving communications and actions with others, treat it with respect.

America's deadliest threat isn't a foreign army or terrorist cell – it's a synthetic opioid devastating communities across the nation. Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.

A now certain return to the Oval Office, even for a larger-than-life figure like Trump, once seemed a stretch. In the end, it wasn’t.

It’s time we liberal Democrats faced up to the truth: We have become the party of intolerance and shaming, and a lot of ordinary Americans who once reliably voted Democratic and shared our Franklin Roosevelt-era liberalism that viewed government as a force for good now look at us as out-of-touch elites.

The first thing to be said about price and wage fixing is that it is harmful at any time and under any conditions. It is a giant step toward a dictated, regimented and authoritarian economy.

Creating a Shadow Response Group will require a new mindset in Washington and in NATO. Passivity will be out. The new mindset will be aggressive and proactive, not to stimulate a hot war but to prevent it.

Ever listened to two people or two groups argue? Both opponents believe there is only one real truth – MINE!  

In my opinion, Greenfield is the greatest rural American small town to exist. It is time to come together as a great community.

The precise role of the civil lawsuit in a free society governed by the rule of law often escapes our attention. Though lawsuits can hassle, entangle, and even impoverish the parties caught up in them, their exact function is noble: Civil suits are the mechanism for enforcing a set of communal rules about fairness and prosocial behavior.

Farmers especially feel the weight of higher costs and interest rates. While input costs have risen, market prices have stumbled. With corn hovering at $4 and soybeans at $9, the Department of Agriculture projects farm income will be down 6.8 percent compared to last year.

Small acts of love and kindness can mean so much. They can brighten another's life in ways you may not know. And most importantly, they make God happy.